IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[foo_DBExportMMEDirections]') AND type in (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF', N'FS', N'FT')) DROP FUNCTION [dbo].[foo_DBExportMMEDirections] GO SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[foo_DBExportMMEDirections]') AND type in (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF', N'FS', N'FT')) BEGIN execute dbo.sp_executesql @statement = N'CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[foo_DBExportMMEDirections] ( ) RETURNS xml AS BEGIN RETURN isnull(( SELECT [s_GUID] ,[DIRECTION] ,[TEXT_L1] ,[TEXT_L2] ,[DATE] ,[VERSION] ,[EXPIRED] ,[REMARKS] ,[LAST_CHANGE] ,[LAST_CHANGE_TEXT] ,[HISTORY] ,[SORTKEY] FROM [dbo].[MMEDirections] CustomDirection for xml auto, BINARY BASE64, root (''CustomDirections'')), '''') END ' END GO